Power Supply Question

[fingerprints]

Is a 360 watt power supply in a med tower ATX case enough for a Pentium IV 1.8 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, a 30GB HD, CPU fan, heatsink, 2 extra case fans, vid card, sound card etc? I have the choice of 320 watt, 360, or 400 but the 400 waould be a little above my budget. That's why I'm wondering if the 360 watt supply would be fine. And how do you know by the way how much power supply you need?

 

[bozo1]

yes

 

[Electric Amish]

360w is way more than enough....

Unless you're running some huge RAID system or way more fans that you need, 300W will probably be adequate for most systems.

My system (sig) is run on a 300w Sparkle.

amish